Anna Roos van Wijngaarden
Would you like it rough or smooth? Rough knitwear and the over-polished aesthetic
Coarse wool is back: B.B. Wallace is the outcome of a decade-long friendship between Meryll Rogge, creative director at Marni, and knitwear specialist Sarah Allsopp
Cattail: the wetland plant can restore Dutch peatlands and provide fiber for textiles
As the Dutch countryside sinks into clay-rich peat, Studio RietGoed turns resilient cattail into a dual solution—restoring waterlogged soils while developing plant-based textiles for tomorrow’s fashion
Who said carbon is a market? When offsetting becomes upsetting
“Outsourcing the consequences of your own bad decisions is not the path.” The illusion of carbon neutrality: why climate change can’t be solved by buying carbon offsets and outsourcing responsibility.
Angelo Moratti calls for a more human Capitalism: purpose is the new power
One year after leaving his family’s oil business, Angelo Moratti delivers a speech in Milan on how fame, ego, and tech hubris are eroding capitalism—an interview
Fashion Weeks must be about rules and regulations – not about parties and glam
The more fashion capitals jump on the so-called sustainability requirements, rules and regulations, the more critics begin to wonder if a sustainable fashion week can ever exist
Guatemalan artisanry is dying: can price transparency save it?
Through price transparency and detailed documentation, Luna del Pinal brings value to Guatemala’s ancient crafts and its artisanal indigenous communities
Oslo positions itself as a circular fashion city
Overshadowed by Copenhagen, Oslo is emerging as a city for circular fashion, focused on sustainable textile industry, with convincing initiatives – against the backdrop of Norway’s dependence on oil and...
Waste smuggling: who takes responsibility for dignified jobs in African textile industries?
High-quality garments are redirected from African secondhand clothing markets, leaving the discards and low-empowering labor in local traders’ wake. Human dignity is at stake
Hyperlocal installations produced with CO2 in mind – A Feral Commons (or: A Forgotten Place)
For A Feral Commons, Muhannad Shono studied unnoticed ecologies in Dubai’s urban Alserkal Avenue. He applied his rebellious manifestation philosophy to the industrial Al Quoz area
Tali Lennox: a tsunami of change
Tali Lennox interview with Lampoon, the Boiling issue: I like to capture the void in between where one has a physical or environmental eruption. Photography Olivia Malone, styling Carolina Orrico
Bacterial stunts and molds at Margiela – from 1997 till today
Who remembers Martin Margiela’s bacterial stunt from 1997? Mold on clothes, multiplied in the backyards of contemporary museums. Retracing the technique used in the exhibition
Power and fashionistas in the Church
The Church and the religious fashion: Fashion for God at Museum Catharijneconvent shows the artistic commitment behind the paraments of the Catholic church in the past
Fuck-it expense, Gen Z: the digital consumer mis-behavior
Fuck-it expense – how do you spend your time when you think the world is ending? Gen Z consumer behavior reflects human fragility and a generation of frustrated young people
Sustainable textile industry: Lycra Company get rid of fossil-based spandex
Dismissing Plastic. Eyeballing the need for a sustainable textile industry, The Lycra Company replaces synthetic spandex with a fiber made with a naturally sourced ingredient: corn
Camila Falquez raises social consciousness on BIPOC, Black, indigenous, people of color
BIPOC means Black Indigenous and People of Colour. A conversation with Camila Falquez, Latin America’s fashion photographer of the year, whose work focus is in on systemic racial injustices
